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A DIY GPS tracking device for hikers

Posted on May 22, 2017 by R-B Leave a comment

A handy GPS tracker designed by woytekm for tracking and recording your hiking trips on a microSD card. It also features a Nokia 3310 LCD for showing current GPS position, altitude, track length, track duration and time. More details of the design are found at the author’s Github page.

DIY GPS tracker for hiking trips

This device does not provide any map or direction info. It just shows GPS position, altitude, track length, track duration and current time. Track data is written to micro SD card as GPX file. Nothing too ingenious, but still quite handy if you like to gather the data on your hike. Thanks to large capacity 18650 rechargeable battery and low power circuitry (nRF51822 SoC) device can last well over 50 hours on one charge, which is enough for five day backpacking trip (thanks to track resume function it can be switched on and off with an “open” track), or 48h non stop ultra hike that i do once a year (that was primary purpose of this build).

Personal location tracker

Posted on December 1, 2016 by R-B Leave a comment

Tiobel‘s Track Me project describes a personal GPS tracker using an Arduino Mega along with a GPS module and a GPRS Shield. The GPS module finds its location using data from more than 3 satellites. In order to retrieve the location remotely, you need to call the number of the SIM card placed into the GPRS shield, and the system will send you back an SMS with the actual position and it’s link to the google maps.

GPS tracker using Arduino

Yet another GPS tracker

Posted on May 2, 2015 by R-B Leave a comment

Here is another GPS tracker using Arduino that is aimed to assist people suffering from Alzheimer and Dementia by notifying their caretakers about their location. It consists of a GPS module, GSM module, Arduino and batteries all enclosed in a 3D printed case. When the GPS module is not within a user-specified boundary, the device will send a text message alert.

GPS tracker to assist people suffering from Alzheimer

GPS based car locator

Posted on April 19, 2015 by R-B Leave a comment

Keep forgetting where you have parked your car in the parking lot? This Arduino-based car locator uses GPS to remember where you park with just the push of a button and later tells you how far you are from it and in what direction.

The GPS continuously reads the latitude and longitude of the CarTracker. When the button is pressed, the coordinates are saved to the EEPROM. E.g., this would be the location of your car.

Now, let’s say you walk out of a store and are looking for your car. Power up the CarTracker. Do not push button. The GPS will read the coordinates of the store and will calculate distance and direction from there to the stored location (of the car). The compass will orient the display so the display will point to the car and will display the distance.

GPS car locator

Real-time GPS tracking device for vehicles

Posted on September 10, 2014 by R-B Leave a comment

Check out Cooking Hacks Arduino-based GPS tracker project for vehicles that could be extremely helpful to pinpoint the exact location of the vehicle in case it is stolen. The project uses a GPS+GPRS shield with an antenna to locate the coordinates of the vehicle. You need to call the device from your preset phone number, which will be verified by the SIM908 module on the tracker, and it will then send you an SMS with the GPS coordinates of its location.

GPS tracker for vehicles